LAGOS OCTOBER 5TH (NEWSRANGERS)-No fewer than 9 persons have reportedly lost their lives in the Alafin Sabo Idi Odun area of Oyo State on Monday, 4th October, 2021 when a tree fell on them. Focus Naija can report that the victims included market women and their children that were taking cover from a heavy downpour….
Afghan sporting officials have confirmed the death of young footballer Zaki Anwari. The 19-year-old plummeted to his death after trying to cling on to a departing plane this week. Tributes have flooded in for Zaki Anwari who tragically fell to his death from a plane, while trying to escape from Kabul A desperate attempt to…
LAGOS JANUARY 24TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Nigerian man has died after falling from the 12th floor of his apartment while allegedly attempting to evade immigration officers. The man, known as Ogodor, from Uli, Anambra state, fell from the Gading Nias Apartment in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Thursday, January 23, 2020. There are conflicting reports about how he died. Some Nigerians…
LAGOS JUNE 19TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A Canadian man has died after his parachute failed to open when he jumped out of a plane during a military exercise led by US forces in Bulgaria, local media reported on Tuesday. Three soldiers, reportedly US citizens, were also injured during the exercise overnight to Tuesday, dubbed Swift Response 2019, according…
LAGOS APRIL 1ST (NEWSRANGERS)-A Senior Secondary Student and the Head Prefect of Ijo Mimo High School in Akure, Ondo State, Temitayo Oluwole, died at the weekend after falling from a mango tree within the school compound. Oluwole was reported to have attended a tutorial class organised by the school for Senior Students on Saturday when…
LAGOS JULY 13TH (NEWSRANGERS)-A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress, Bayelsa State chapter, Chief Lionel Jonathan-Omo, is dead. Jonathan-Omo, the Deputy Campaign Director General of Sylva/Igiri Campaign Organisation during the 2016 governorship election in the state reportedly had a fatal fall from the balcony of his two-storey building in his country home in Beleu-Pogo in…
LAGOS JUNE 20TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Two persons died when a truck loaded with boards and plywood tilted on the Ojuelegba Bridge, Surulere, Lagos State late on Tuesday evening. Two other persons were also injured, according to an update provided by the General Manager, Lagos State Emergency Management Agency, Adesina Tiamiyu. The accident occurred at 8pm. Similar accidents…
LAGOS APRIL 4TH (NEWSRANGERS)-Three persons are feared to have died in the early hours of Wednesday in Lagos when an electric pole fell on a moving commercial bus in the Ilasa area of the State. The development was confirmed by police authorities in the area. According to available information, emergency teams of the Lagos State…